Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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f confidence greatly offended Nicholas, without deterringhim from his intentions. And so it came about that in the year 1854 therewere four great armies drawn up near Balaklava, in the Crimea, to fight abattle—the Russians on one side; English, French and Turks on the other.The Russians had taken a position in the shape of an immense horse-shoe, the opening facing the armies of the allies. The English officer, LordLucan, saw that by a combined attack upon the ends of the horse-shoe—theFrench at one side and the English at the other—they could be rolled up,in army phrase, upon the centre, with good chances of a victory. So hebegan sending out his orders. The English infantry were told to advance,and meanwhile a body of light cavalry was ordered to make a charge, bywhich time the infantry would be coming up to carry on the conflict. Butthe officer to whom the order was sent, not understanding the plan, misun-derstood the place of attack, and ordered the commander of the brigade to
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36 Persons and Places in Europe. charge up the Russian centre. As Tennyson says, Well they knew thatsome one had blundered, and the officer commanding begged leave to callhis superiors attention to the fact that there were cannon to right of them,cannon to left of them, and cannon in front of them. You are ordered to charge, said the blundering officer. Yery well,answered the brave man; and away they went, while all the world won-dered —the Russians at what appeared to them the unlimited daring of thefoe; the English, at the heroic fidelity of their disciplined troops, rushinginto the very jaws of death on a misinterpreted order. The brave leaderwas killed when his brigade had gone but a short distance, but they madethe charge and came back— all that was left of them, left of six hundred. Against such discipline and such daring the Russians made little progressin the battles that followed, and Mcholas had to give up his designs uponConstantinople. The Liberator.—In the midst of

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